[ecrea] CfP Accelerating Habitus Shifts and Long-Term Alternatives

The international Norbert Elias conference 2018
Global Interdependencies. What’s new in the human society of 
individuals? The political and academic relevance of Norbert Elias’s 
work today
Brussels, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, December 5-8, 2018, Brussels
https://eliasbrussels2018.wordpress.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
Accelerating Habitus Shifts and Long-Term Alternatives

a session organized by Profs. Stefan Kramer and Peter Ludes (University 
of Cologne, Germany)

We call for Abstracts for papers of no more than 400 words to be 
submitted not later than May 15th, 2018. Every effort will be made to 
accommodate contributions by all scholars who are making serious use of 
the ideas of Norbert Elias in their research. Submissions should be sent 
to the conference email address: (EliasBrussels2018 /at/ gmail.com) and to the 
organizers of this session (peter.ludes /at/ yahoo.de) and/or 
(stefan.kramer /at/ uni-koeln.de)

Stefan Kramer's introduction looks at the social credit point system in 
the PR China. It investigates the historical connection of the newly 
established system with the traditional ideal of the Chinese social 
structure and its cultural narratives. The traditional ideal aimed at a 
balanced relationship of benevolence and piety between rulers and 
subordinates in family as well as in local and state structures. It also 
refers to the duty of self-cultivation. This ideal represented the 
central element of the Chinese scholar state since the axis time. It was 
used similarly by all philosophical schools, even if it has been 
interpreted and applied differently. This social system of power still 
determines participation and exclusion in Chinese communities. It has 
established different narrations of Chineseness in changing historical 
conditions.

In his introduction, Peter Ludes will argue: In general, ever newer 
dis-/information and ex-/communication technologies and 
ex-/communication modes accelerate habitus shifts. The social control 
and behavior shifts in the emerging world power of China require closer 
attention also in terms of more widely conceived and more or less 
reality-adequate utopias/dystopias. Ludes defines "alternatives" as 
desirable, consistent and realizable social actions, processes, or 
structures different from the predominant ones or, in Elias's terms: as 
long-term intergenerational goals of alternative figurations.

Basic questions concerning accelerating habitus shifts and long-term 
alternatives include, e.g.: How do new intra- and interstate 
interdependencies enhance habitus shifts and support or break up 
previously dominant power ratios? How do alternating perspectives on 
“Western” modernity prove to be particularly valuable? Which role do 
widely incoherent perceptions of collective "alternatives" play in the 
"integration–disintegration tensions" of the "contemporary world"?

All contributors to our session are invited to take into account the 
mutual interdependencies and conflicts of "comprehensive social control 
and the newly revived and reassembled ideal of self-cultivation" and/or 
new types and scopes of algorithmic surveillance.


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